"You can never overrate safety," Howard says. "But you're right, you can't trust it either. It just leaves like that when you least expect it." He snaps his fingers to illustrate, but also to try and distract from the way he quickly blinks back tears as he thinks of that. Funny, how some ideas still cut to the bone.

"Anyway. So the Quaffle goes into those hoops, and you want to score as many points as fast as possible because you don't know when the other guy might get the snitch and end the game, right? So in theory, the whole game could end in two minutes if one of the Seekers is good and lucky, right?" He chuckles a bit. "Do people ask for refunds if that happens?"